From Broadcast to Web

Many people may not know, but I dropped out of high-school a year before I was to graduate. Back then, the idea of no school was a breeze. I took advantage of lots of things that I wasn’t responsible for at the time. Being as young as I was, I didn’t have to worry about a rent, cable bills, electric bills and other common expenses of today’s typical adult. I was living the life. Out of school with magical dreams of starting a business and absolutely no clue on which foot to put first.

So instead I crawled. I started surrounding myself with people who I thought ‘may’ have a clue, and those people led me to people who actually knew what they were doing. They actually owned healthy-stable businesses and made a pretty good living for themselves. People like Jon Brunson, Keetha Lowe and Harold Simons simply get it.

I always knew I was going to work in the Digital Media industry. But there’s so many branches on that tree. You have your Print Media and Graphic Design, then your Audio Production and Recording, then your Photography, Your Web Design; I love them all. I eventually settled on Television and Broadcast, designing video and lower-third graphics for television. I loved it. But not as much as my fascination with the web.

Most of the skills I know today are self-taught. However, I’ve picked up many different techniques and strategies of web design from other web designers’ blogs. I own a small web design firm today and Im doing okay for myself.

Its awesome when your a creative person. Your mind is constantly ticking and those creative juices you depend on to make life a wee-bit more interesting evolve as you grow older.